Washboard.



H. A. BIERLEY.

WASHBDARD.

APPLICATION HLED 113.10, 1909.

Patented Nov. 16, i909.

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WAsHBoARD.

4 I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented 'Nm-v. 16, 1909.

Application filed February 10, 1909. Serial No. 477,139.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. BIERLEY, a citizen of the United:Y States,residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Scioto and State .of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and `useful Improvements in W'ashboards, of

l which the following is a specification.

My inventionrelates to an improvement in Washboards, and the object isto provide a Simple and inexpensive washboard, the main portions ofwhich can be stamped out of sheet metal and when assembled, willconstitute not only the washboard surface, but also the sides of thewashboard.

In addition to the main object of strengthening, and economy ofconstruction, it is the purpose of my present invention to provide meansfor facilitating the rapid disposal of water from the board during thescrubbing process, and to this end the strengthening ribs are utilizedas drains for the quick disposal of the water.

' My invention consists in certain novel features of construction andcombinations of @parts lwhich will be hereinafter described and pointedout in the claims. In the accompanying drawings Figures 1 and 2- areviews of the 'opposite sides of the board, Fig 3 is a bottom plan viewofthe board inits upright position, Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 4 ofFig. l, and, Fig. 5 is av section on line 5--5 of Fig'. 2. Fig. 6 is a nmodification.

The -board is .mainly composed of' two :layers ll and 2, of sheet metal,as shown in the drawings, placed back to back, with their oppositevertical edges bent into tubular form and fitted together concentricallyor telescopically, as illustrated in Fig, whereby the sides 3. and 4ofthe frame of the board are rendered rigid, as well as smoothsupercially, and given an attractive appearance, and they being integralwith the sheet metal composing the washing surface, they 45,. affordstrength to the washboard, and at the same time are easily and cheaplyconstructed.

` The two surfaces differ somewhat from each other, although in someparticulars are alike For instance, the obverse side of theboard'illustrated in Fig. 1 has more or less sharp angular corrugations5, all of which incline in one direction across the board, they beingsubdivided by the vertical or 1on- ,gitudi'nal channels 6, 6. Thesechannels have two functions, one being to form strengthensible intervalof time. s

On the reverse side, the washing surface is subdlvided into alternatelyarranged short and long Atransverse corrugations 7 and 8,

respectively, the line of juncture 9, similar to the rib-like drains 6,6, on the obverse side, between said corrugations constitutingstrengthening previously.

The u per portion of the frame may be made o .wood or other material,and the soap panel l0, of a sheet of corrugated metal, if desired, asillustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, and the legs 11, 11, of the board, may bemade of wood or other material, secured into the lower end of the sidetubing or sides i Inthe modification shown inFig. 6, I have illustratedthe channels back to back, and in engagement with each other,--where 4byeach afords a support f or the other, thus adding greatly to thestrength` of the washing surface In this way, I have rovided acommercially inexpensive was board, the initial cost of which is small,because so much of it may be made by machinery, and the parts may be soeasily and quickly assembled.- It also has the further advantage-that itis of superior strength, and the construction is such that the operationof washing or rubbing is greatly facilitated.

More or less slight changes mlght bere-v sorted to in the form andlarrangement of the several parts described, without departing from thespirit and scope of my invention, and hence I do not wish to limit myself to the exact construction herein set forth, but

Having fully described..my. invention,

what I claim as new and desire to Letters Patent, is l 1. As an articleof manufacture, awash board comprising in the main two plates of sheetmetal, the extreme edges of which are bent correspondingly into tubularform', one tted and held frictionally within the other and permanentlyjoined whereby to give strength to the edges, and the metal immediiately `adjacent thereto bent parallel and secure by ribs, anddrains asalluded to 3. As an article of manufacture, a washboard, the two washingsurfaces of which are made of channeled and corrugated sheet metal, thechannels forming strengthening ribs and drains, the backs offthechannels abutting each other the board.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature,v

in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY A. BIERLEY. Witnesses:

VERNON E. Honens,

VVAT'rs T. EsTARooK.

whereby to afford support to strengthen the washing surfaces of@

